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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004
From: Andreas Umland <andreumland@yahoo.com>
Subject: New Book on Human Rights in Russia

NEW BOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLEMENTATION IN RUSSIA

The Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in Russia:
Philosophical, Legal, and Empirical Studies
( Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society, Vol. 1).
Edited by Andreas Umland
Published by Ibidem Publishers Stuttgart, http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l.html.
ISBN 3-89821-387-0, Paperback, 228 pp., 24.90 Euro.

In 1996, the Russian Federation became a member of the Council of Europe. Two years later, the Russian parliament ratified the Council's major document, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These Russian- and English-language papers were presented at a conference at Yekaterinburg in spring 2001. The collection constitutes a snapshot of Russian and Western approaches to human rights protection at a moment when Russia was going through a first phase of adaptation of the political system created by Boris Yeltsin to the new modes of state-society relations introduced by Vladimir Putin.

Contents:

Sergey Alexeyev on human rights and Modernity (in Russian);
Rainer Arnold on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (in English);
Valery Mikhailenko on ethnic separatism (in Russian);
Julia Kharlamova on the impossibility of an ECHR-implementation in Russia (in Russian);
Yekaterina Khodzhayeva on human rights discourses in Tatarstans mass media (in Russian);
Anatoly Azarov on the Russians’ lack of knowledge about the ECHR (in Russian);
Manja Hussner on the incorporation of international treaties into Russian law (in English);
Marat Salikov on the Constitutional Court (in Russian);
Anton Burkov on the detention of mentally ill persons (in English);
Igor Shirmanov on ambiguities in Russian legal norms (in Russian);
Olga Selikhova on human rights issues in the regions (in Russian);
Olga Aleksenko on the Human Rights Commission of Rostov-on-the-Don (in Russian);
Yelena Goncharova on the right to a fair trial (in Russian);
Tatyana Gladkova on the Sverdlovsk Oblast Ombudsman (in Russian);
Andrey Lyamzin on Yekaterinburg’s detention system (in Russian);
Andreas Umland with Oxana Stouppo on Western policies towards Russia (in Russian);
Andreas Umland on prospects of ECHR-implementation under Putin (in English).

The collection’s full list of contents may be found at: http://shop08.orderonline.de/dzo/bhv/vlb/objekte/401/389/821/3898213870.pdf

The book can be bought via the WWW at:
http://www.buchhandel.de/index.html?http://www.buchhandel.de/vlb/
vlb.cgi?T=1065033728&ID=0218x5033711x31069x-213&fullsearch
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253D3932602005%252A%2529&subcount=0&subsource=suche
&type=voll&artnr=3-89821-387-0.